{"id":229161,"date":"2025-10-28T00:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/229161\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T00:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:58:09","slug":"ireland-v-new-zealand-all-you-need-to-know-as-rivals-set-for-soldier-field-rematch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/229161\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland v New Zealand: All you need to know as rivals set for Soldier Field rematch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As mentioned above, Ireland&#8217;s victory over New Zealand in Chicago nine years ago proved a turning point in this fixture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While it was New Zealand dominance up until that point, the past 10 meetings have been shared equally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The All Blacks did gain revenge for their loss in Chicago by beating Ireland in Dublin a fortnight later, but in 2018, Ireland would then record their first win at home against New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2022, they won for the first time on New Zealand soil before backing it up seven days later to secure a 2-1 series win, but the All Blacks have always found a way to bounce back, thumping Ireland in a 2019 World Cup quarter-final in Japan and in the 2023 tournament in France, came through 28-24 as they held out despite latest Irish pressure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The last meeting between the teams took place in Dublin last year when the All Blacks came away with a 23-13 victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Damian McKenzie kicked six penalties to give the All Blacks a lead midway through the second half despite a Josh van der Flier try for Ireland just after the break, but a Will Jordan try would put the issue beyond doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As mentioned above, Ireland&#8217;s victory over New Zealand in Chicago nine years ago proved a turning point in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-229161","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}